Michael Najjar @Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

For the 2023's Edition of Ars Electronica Festival (6-10 September) in Linz, Austria, Michael Najjar has created a massive, immersive instllation at the museum's futuristic 8k Deep Space featuring his "cool earth" series. The installation included video works and photographic images projected onto 9x16 meter screen and simultaneously onto the floor. The presentation was acoompanied by site-specific sound compositions and real-time voice-over comments by the artist.
The work series “cool earth” spans the arc from an impending dystopian future - which has already arrived in our present – to a technology-based decarbonised post-fossil world. It picks up on ideas already addressed in Najjar’s previous series of works “outer space” such as terraforming and the re-surveying of Earth’s systems from orbit. The climate crisis appears to us as a hyperobject whose complexity and temporal and spatial dimensions lie beyond our understanding. An artistic confrontation with this hyperobject could contribute to making invisible connections visible, to setting processes of reflection in motion, and to visualising post-fossil visions of the future. The works of the ”cool earth” series are a resonance body connecting scientific knowledge with aesthetic construction. The photos and video works open up a field of thought to viewers on how we can design a liveable, post-destructive world within our planetary boundaries.
 
2023.9.6-2023.9.10
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